I've been reading these forums for months, signed up a few weeks ago, I've been wondering why I couldn't post It's understood, I know how quickly forums can get out of control. I'm just trying to keep up with the latest headlines, and community sentiment. I want to make the best financial decisions that I can.

Currently: I run a web-hosting business that accepts BTC. I'm see slow steady growth in terms of customer's paying it bitcoin. I also run an etsy.com store, and accept BTC.

I'm new here. Poli-sci student originally rolled into Bitcoin out of principle and appeal for the philosophy. Applaud the evidence-based findings that are being posted here, it seems as if the general bitcoin community consists of very intelligent individuals capable of making very real and very necessary changes to the world wide economic system and its dogmatic and top-down, hierarchical approach. I hope to play a vital role in spreading the bitcoin philosophy and implementing bitcoin in various parts of our globalized economy. I also try to raise awareness on this subject and hope the bitcoin success will lead to more open source concepts without a hierarchical structure.

Either going to buy about 20k of mining equipment or invest it in bitcoin, just off the bat, what would you suggest? Seems as if those ASIC rigs will take until BTC prod cap is reached before they'll be delivered, at least I haven't heard anybody about receiving one yet... any news on this? Furthermore I am very interested in meeting programmers and developers and other computer savvy people to help create an easy to access payment infrastructure for small to medium businesses in the Netherlands, money is available, motivation, PR and representation can easily be taken care off. I just need some very smart people to help me built the ideas I have.

So you think you have what it takes and you're willing to put in time and effort to make bitcoin work, and built an economy, PM me!

Long time lurker, just signed up so I can wade into some of these threads. Didn't realise there would be a restriction for n00bs! Alas.

I won't say to much, other than I have a very modest investment in some coins, love the idea of Bitcoin and think it is a very interesting experiment that we will all learn a lot from one way or another.

Mined a bitcoin, then switched to LTC as there seemed to be a better ROI w/ the small system i have. Using the GUI miners currently, but will switch soon to mine multiple currencies since this seems possible with different programs..

Intrigued with the idea of these alternative ...unbacked... currencies.

Hello. I've been lurking for awhile. Dinked around with some BTC mining back when it was a few bucks, and decided 'meh'. It was brought back to my attention, after, of course, GPU's stopped being easily viable for mining So, mining some LTC with a 7750 until BFL actually ships.

I am also known as Déesse D'or, I only just learned of Bitcoin in January of this year and fell in fascination with it immediately! The very thought of currency that may be kept somewhat anonymous is truly exciting.

Currently, I am on a quest to learn all I am able about crypto-coin. About a month ago, I became aware of Litecoin and now I am keeping track of Peercoin(ppc) and IXcoin as well. I feel strongly that crypto-currency will only grow in popularity and is in no threat of going away.

Hi all, i'm juiced, bought some bitcoins and waiting for the day an ASIC company actually can deliver a bitcoin mining device next day. Until then I rather invest my money in bitcoins as the value keeps rising. I heard about bitcoins back in 2011, but only thought of it as a waste of computing energy compared with the value of the bitcoin then, I think I have to admit I was wrong. But I decided to keep an eye on it and things were getting more interesting in March this year and I decided to jump in reading everything about bitcoins and when I saw those mining rigs I realized this is serious business. And when understanding how bitcoins really work I realized this is the future. Bitcoin is the next episode in the Digital Revolution.I never bought something with a bitcoin, probably because it's not mainstream yet. I think this day will come and the value of a bitcoin will keep on rising exponentially until it reaches a value of a tens of thousands of dollars, maybe even hundreds of thousands. Just my 2 BTC.